Elizabeth Garrison
Contact details
Professional profile
Activities
Editing
Translating
Translating
Language pairs
Catalan > English
Italian > English
Spanish > English
Italian > English
Spanish > English
Areas of expertise
EU
Food and Drink
Tourism
Food and Drink
Tourism
Qualifications and experience
With 12+ years' experience in the translation industry and an MA in Translation & Interpreting Studies, I approach my translation work with a mixture of passion and precision; I am committed to getting every word right, and to creating translations that read like original documents. My speciality areas include tourism and travel, wine and EU affairs.
Continuing professional development
METMs
Workshops
- Corpus guidance: a tool for understanding professional language usage, change, and variety
- The comma, false friends and transcreation (MET medley, Milan 2018)
- Wine words – translating in the wine world
- Tips and tools from the Hive, cutting out source-language interference, is full post-editing a pipe dream? (MET medley, Nantes 2019)
- Human nutrition and climate change: a knowledge update for language professionals
- Editing humanities and social science texts: theory and practice
- Translating art from Spanish
- Grammar pathway minisession: subject–verb agreement
- Singular ‘they’: honourable usage or a sign of grammatical incompetence?
- Tagging along: dangling participles, adverbial disjuncts and other hangers-on
- Two aspects of information ordering that affect flow within sentences and beyond
- Signposting the way: using punctuation to improve flow
- Translating contracts
- Relatives: the clause type — and why people still argue about 'which'
- The comma: to pause or to parse?
- Beat the agencies at their own game: develop a watertight translation workflow process
- Translating for the art world
- Translation revision and beyond
- Dealing with parentheses: commas, brackets and dashes
Other
2020: ITI Spanish Network spring workshop; wine2wine Business Forum; IT>EN literary translation workshop webinar series with Tim Parks
2019: Fitur; Enofusión; ProWein; Vinitaly; London Wine Fair
2018: ProWein; Vinitaly; Aptrad Conference; London Wine Fair
2017: Buenos Aires Book Fair; BP17 conference; ITI Conference; London Wine Fair
